Bible Verses about โwomen workingโ
The Bible contains 44 verses about women working across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.โ
โCharm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.โ
โYahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."โ
โto be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.โ
โWho can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.โ
โBut I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.โ
โWhatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.โ
โShe opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.โ
โthat they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,โ
โStrength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.โ
โHer children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:โ
โShe looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.โ
โShe arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.โ
โGive her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!โ
โThe heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.โ
โ"Many women do noble things, but you excel them all."โ
โand that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;โ
โShe does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.โ
โShe rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.โ
โShe considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.โ
โShe opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.โ
โShe makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.โ
โShe perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.โ
โShe seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.โ
โShe makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant.โ
โShe lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.โ
โShe is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.โ
โShe is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.โ
โHer husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.โ
โOpen your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."โ
โTheir wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.โ
โOpen your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.โ
โGive strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:โ
โNow Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.โ
โLet him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.โ
โIt is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'โ
โEvery wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.โ
โlest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.โ
โI desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.โ
โDon't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.โ
โThe words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him.โ
โ"Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!โ
โHe will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.โ
โAll the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.โ
